- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 97
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Ana MUÑOZ GASCÓN, Augustine Edith EMENE, Paloma MOLLEDO PÉREZ, Susana ALVAREZ ALVAREZ
- Creation / modification date: 03-02-2014
- Term: diploid (cell)
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: The condition in which the cell contains two sets of chromosomes. Normal state of somatic cells in man where the diploid number (2N) is 46.
- Context: The Drosophila larva is composed primarily of large polyploid (polytene) cells, which do not divide but increase in size and ploidy during larval development. Most of the larval polytene cells are destroyed during morphogenesis. Also present in the larva are groups of rapidly dividing diploid cells, many in discrete structures called imaginal discs, which will give rise to the structures of the adult fly.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (p. 102)
- Definition: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (p. 326)
- Context: LANDIS, G. et al. “The k43 gene, required for chorion gene amplification and diploid cell chromosome replication, encodes the Drosophila homolog of yeast origin recognition complex subunit 2”. PNAS, 94 (8): pp. 3888–3892.
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